Brownies & Bars

Appears in
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2008

  • About
The perfect brownie is a topic of much discussion. Everyone has an opinion or a specific brownie memory. Brownies are eaten, dissected, and discussed. Chewy? Fudgy? Cakey? Frosting?

Brownies are our thing. We have done our brownie research. We’ve performed in-depth scholarly studies, and we’ve tested and eaten sample after sample of brownie after brownie. The fruits of our labor have culminated in our favorite brownie recipe ever. It is a great one—it’s the same recipe we used to win Oprah’s affections (our brownies appeared in O magazine as one of her favorite things), and it won top honors from the folks at America’s Test Kitchen and the Today show—and now we happily pass it along to you in this chapter.